Doctor Who gets official Lego set It's the news that Doctor Who fans young and young-at-heart have been waiting for: Doctor Who Lego is in production. The concept for a Doctor Who set came from the Lego Ideas website where fans can submit suggestions for a set and vote for their favourite idea to be produced. Various sets have gone through the site but none have come to fruition until a concept from fan Andrew Clark who received the 10,000 votes requisite for The Lego Group to consider it for production. Andrew’s winning design features a range of Doctors, companions and monsters across the show’s history, but fans will have to wait until later this year to discover what will actually be produced. A set based on Disney animated film WALL-E will also go into production. The sets were announced by Lego via the video below. Emma Owen, UK spokesperson for Lego Ideas, said: “We’re extremely excited to announce that a Doctor Who and a WALL-E set will be released as our next Lego Ideas fan based sets, congratulations to the designers Andrew Clark and [WALL-E] Angus MacLane!
After receiving over 10,000 votes from the online community and having gone through rigorous toy testing from our expert panel, these awesome sets are on track to be on shelves later this year. The final set designs, pricing and availability are being worked out as we speak, so watch this space for the final details!” Lego Ideas is a crowdsourcing community where fans can submit their own ideas for new Lego products, and vote for other members’ ideas. Members collect votes for their ideas online, and ideas that receive 10,000 votes have a chance of being selected to become part of the Lego Group’s product portfolio. To date, nine products – including The Big Bang Theory – have been green lit via the platform with three new products set to launch in 2015. 's terms and conditions. You can opt out at any time.Official Lego Wall-E Set Coming from Pixarian Angus MacLane’s design! This is a story very near and dear to my heart. We all know Pixarian Angus MacLane is a huge Lego collector and designer (and Wall-E is my favorite Pixar film).
He submitted his Wall-E design as part to Lego and it has been selected by the Lego Ideas Review Board! A release date has been announced yet, but check out the video for more details! This entry was posted in Pixar News and tagged Angus MacLane, Lego, Lego Ide, Wall-E. Pixar poster of the Month! Pixar Calendar Inside Out - (6/19/15) The Good Dinosaur - (11/25/15) Finding Dory - (6/17/16) Toy Story 4 - (6/26/17) Untitled Lee Unkrich Film - (TBA) Untitled Teddy Newton Film - (TBA) Untitled Mark Andrews Film - (TBA) The Incredibles 2 - (TBA) Cars 3 - (TBA) Pixar Talk on Twitter! Become a Fan on Facebook! Listen to The Pixar Podcast The Wisdom of PixarAfter securing the rights from Disney/Pixar, LEGO has just released the first images of its upcoming WALL-E set. The set started as a LEGO Ideas submission by Angus MacLane that got the necessary votes to be considered by LEGO for production (comparison shot between the original idea and the final product after the jump).
That WALL-E -- such a lil cutie. And that's saying a lot coming from me because that's the first time I've ever called anything a cutie in my life. A while ago my girlfriend asked me to start being more affectionate and give her a pet name so now I call her T-Rex. Keep going for the other shots. Thanks to becca b, who still has her fingers crossed for a Johnny Five LEGO playset. Yeah, you might just want to call it a loss and uncross those. Well That's Something You Don't See Every Day: A Giant Squid Giving Birth Tattoo Artist Turns Crappy Pikachu Tattoo Into Work Of ArtIn Japan, people hold funerals for robot dogs when they conk out. In North America, four out of five Roomba owners name their robot vacuum cleaners. In pop culture, R2-D2 is arguably the most beloved Star Wars character. There are reasons we have these affections for machines, even fictional ones. If designed properly, robots can be just as lovable as pets—with far more utility. If they exhibit a bit of personality, even better.
So it is with WALL-E, star of Pixar’s eponymous 2008 Oscar-winning animated movie. WALL-E himself is a box-shaped robot charged with the unenviable task of cleaning up the planet while the humans who polluted it beyond recognition sail the heavens in an enormous space cruiser. The diminutive worker bot goes about his job dutifully until he meets and falls in love with EVE, a sleek and mysterious new robot with her own mission. WALL-E checks all of the appeal boxes, and up there with R2-D2, he is already one of pop culture’s most revered robots. It’s somewhat surprising, then, that it has taken so long for a Lego version to become a reality. But Lego WALL-E finally arrives on Sept. 1, and the wait has been worth it. Indeed, he may be the most emotionally evocative Lego creation yet. Measuring just seven inches tall and composed of only 677 pieces, Lego WALL-E is a relatively small set. But, as the saying goes, it’s big on personality. The set features most of the robot’s key features.
His two triangular tank treads roll as he moves, his front door swings open and his arms swivel and move backward and forward. His hands clasp items, such as the included “last plant on Earth,” and his head swivels around and up and down. Most importantly, his eyes, which contain virtually all of the movie robot’s expressive personality, are positionable. It’s with the eyes that Lego WALL-E can be made to look sad, curious or puzzled, just like his film counterpart. With that, it’s hard to think of another Lego set that can convey such a range of emotion. It’s a masterfully designed set, thanks to its pedigree. Lego WALL-E is the brainchild of one of the character’s creators, Angus MacLane, the directing animator on the film. MacLane, a lifelong Lego fan, began building his WALL-E in 2005 at around the same time the character was being designed in Pixar’s computers. The color scheme hadn’t been set yet, so the plastic version was a light gray. MacLane wasn’t entirely happy with his build because the tank treads he was using were too small and flimsy.
When production on the film ramped up, he set it aside. Years later, a new Lego bulldozer set provided the treads he was looking for, so he rebuilt WALL-E in the correct color scheme. In October 2013, he decided to submit it to Ideas, Lego’s incubator program for fan creations. Under the Ideas system, fans submit their own builds and try to muster crowd support online. Those that get the most votes get consideration by the Danish company. Designers whose submissions ultimately go on to become products get a 1 percent royalty on sales, not to mention eternal bragging rights for having created an actual Lego set. So far, sets based on Back to The Future, Ghostbusters, and The Big Bang Theory, among others, have graduated from the program. MacLane didn’t have much trouble attracting supporters, with his creation reaching 1,000 backers in December 2013. WALL-E has been a hit with Lego enthusiasts since even before the film’s release. Marc-Andre Bazergui started building his own replica in 2008 after he saw a poster for the movie in a bus shelter near his apartment in Montreal.
Bazergui, known as “Baz” in the enthusiast community, made his fully functional WALL-E out of Technic and Mindstorms robots components. Videos of that creation and subsequent follow-ups have since garnered hundreds of thousands of views. Bazergui, whose day job is in tech support for IBM, now travels to robotics conferences around the world to show off his WALL-E builds. Upon learning of MacLane’s Ideas submission, Bazergui began rallying support for it. Although the Pixar designer’s creation was more of a traditional Lego set, rather than a Mindstorms robot, it was clear that an official product had to happen. “Everyone was looking up to Angus as the ultimate WALL-E,” he said. “When you realize who he is and how true to nature it is, of course you’re going to support it.” Lego green-lit the project and put designer Steen Sig Andersen on it. Andersen and MacLane began collaborating on a set that would be more commercially feasible than the original.
“Designing a Lego model for yourself is one thing, but there are many more factors to consider when designing a model for a mass-market product,” MacLane said in an email. “Piece count, playability, and stability were all things that I had to consider when my model was translated into the official set.” The duo went back and forth, swapping Lego Digital Designer files between Denmark and California, with tweaks being made to various parts of the original model. Andersen added playability with the moveable arms and swinging front door, before the set went to stability testing. The head, unfortunately, failed several stress tests, requiring a return to the figurative drawing board. “Steen ended up completely re-engineering the head to maintain the look of the original, but stand up to the rigorous stability requirements,” MacLane said. In the end, WALL-E went through 23 iterations—a lot for an Ideas project, MacLane added, although that was because of Pixar’s involvement.